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The cheapest tablet on the market? Aakash, a seven-inch Android device the Indian government isgiving 100,000 free copies of to students. After a trial run, the tablet will cost $60 in stores, and $35 for students after government subsidies.
In 2009, the Indian government pledged to bring a cheap laptop to help improve the quality of education. After producing an underwhelming first prototype, the company of two brothers in Canada, Suneet and Raja Tuli, won the tender for the tablet. Their company, London-based DataWind developed the tablet with the Indian Institute of Technology and will provide 100,000 devices initially. At launch, the government already gave out 500 copies to mixed reception, with negative reviews focused largely on the slowness of the product. If the trial run yields success, the next order is a hefty one: 1 million units.
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When designing the machine, DataWind tested running video for two hours in 48-degree Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature to mimic a northern Indian summer.
Aakash has two USB ports, a three-hour battery life and supports video conferencing. The tablet runs on 256 megabytes of RAM and a 660-megahertz processor.
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